Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3565
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Fortune Feimster works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Fortune Feimster appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Fortune. Soul is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, adventure, family. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Josh Greenbaum, Byron Howard, Nicholas Stoller and others, Fortune Feimster helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Soul (2020) as Counselor Jerry (voice) · Zootopia 2 (2025) as Nibbles Maplestick (voice) · Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty (2021) as Self - Host
Career snapshot
Ranked #3565 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2016–2026
Career length
10 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Soul
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Soul
Most frequent director
Josh Greenbaum
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Josh Greenbaum
Most common genre
Comedy
17 titles
Average runtime
1h 26m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.4 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Dink, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, Zootopia 2 — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.4
Across 19 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Happytime Murders, Office Christmas Party.
Most productive era
2020s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.02 films |
| Action | 5.81 film | 5.81 film |
| Comedy | 5.82 films | 6.215 films |
| Crime | 5.81 film | — |
| Romance | — | 6.32 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Lonny.
Highest rated performance
2020Soul
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2021Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
The current state of the argument, as Eugenia Bunsen (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
21 of 21 films
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Nibbles Maplestick (voice)
Directed by Byron Howard
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Self - Host
Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty (2021)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self - Host gives Fortune Feimster a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Counselor Jerry (voice)
Soul (2020)
Performance score7.9
Soul asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Counselor Jerry (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Nibbles Maplestick (voice)
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Performance score7.7
Zootopia 2 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Nibbles Maplestick (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Self - Host
The Upshaws - The Afterparty (2021)
Performance score7.6
The Upshaws - The Afterparty asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self - Host is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self - Host
Start here. Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty is the clearest statement of what Fortune Feimster does — accessible, 31 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Fortune at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Soul (2020)
Keeps the fantasy register of Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Upshaws - The Afterparty (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Soul — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ginny & Georgia - The Afterparty (2021)
Same director as The Upshaws - The Afterparty, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Zootopia 2 (2025)
A deliberate change of key after Ginny & Georgia - The Afterparty — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Josh Greenbaum
Director
2 films together
Notably The Dink
Josh Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Office Christmas Party
Brian Henson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Happytime Murders
Tyler Spindel
Director
1 film together
Notably Deported
Paul Leyden
Director
1 film together
Notably Chick Fight
Nicol Paone
Director
1 film together
Notably Friendsgiving
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Soul
Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together
Notably YES DAY
Linda Mendoza
Director
1 film together
Notably Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably Family Switch
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably You're Cordially Invited
Byron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Zootopia 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Josh Greenbaum
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The DinkPete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SoulByron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Zootopia 2Miguel Arteta
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
YES DAYMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Family SwitchNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You're Cordially InvitedPaul Leyden
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Chick FightBrian Henson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Happytime MurdersJosh Gordon
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Office Christmas PartyNicol Paone
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FriendsgivingLinda Mendoza
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ CelebrationTyler Spindel
Director
1 film together · 3.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DeportedSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Fate: The Winx Saga - The Afterparty
as Self - Host
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Fortune Feimster has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
17 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zootopia 2
as Nibbles Maplestick (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Zootopia 2
as Nibbles Maplestick (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Chick Fight
as Bear
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Soul
as Counselor Jerry (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Dink
as Esther
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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